On Tuesday 07 Jun 2011 11:16:03 Thiago Macieira wrote: > On Tuesday, 7 de June de 2011 10:14:05 christian.lo...@hamburg.de wrote: > > Hi everybody, > > > > Sorry if the following idea was already brought up. I couldn’t find > > anything about it in the archive. > > > > Proposal: > [snip] > > I'd actually like to preempt this discussion with something we've been > discussing internally too in the past few days, while trying to define what > "Qt 5" exactly is (note: we still don't know, we plan on discussing at the > QCS). Still, your input is valuable. > > We want to limit the scope of what the core of Qt is to very few modules > that are needed to make applications, without being a lowest-common > denominator solution. That is, something like "useful for 90% of the > applications everywhere". In this current thinking (which is less than 12 > hours old), everything else should be Addons, including things that the > people working at Nokia do -- and that includes certain portions of > current Qt 5 and Qt Mobility. > > Contributions from non-Nokians are most definitely welcome into the Addons > and to the core. But the point is that, if you make this really useful set > of classes for doing something non-mainstream, you can make it available > for your fellow developers. And you should be able to reuse the > infrastructure for reviews, testing, releasing, etc. Provided, of course, > you follow the same governance model as the rest and follow the same > values.
The concept of Qt Addons is something we've been discussing inside KDE as well at our Platform 11 summit this last week, although with a slightly different meaning. I won't pre-empt the communications from that too much, but we've been looking at how to restructure and modularise our libraries to make them more useful to the wider Qt community. We wouldn't need to use the Qt infrastructure for our development, but would like a common reference point where Qt developers could go looking for ready-made solutions regardless of where they come from. We have a team working on a proposal around this to present at QCS which we will post a topic for on the wiki. Cheers! John. _______________________________________________ Opengov mailing list Opengov@qt-labs.org http://lists.qt-labs.org/listinfo/opengov
